Rat Steven Gault owes $487k in child support, his ex-wife says. Her problem is that he’s in witness protection and he's not coming out to save his life. Steven 'Hannibal' Gault was, until now, among the most notorious rats in the history of the HAMC in Canada. Gault testified in 2008 that he had received more than $1m for his undercover work with cops that landed 21 bikers behind bars. Steven Gault was still a teenager in North Bay when he started sharing information with the cops. Among those he helped put behind bars was his brother-in-law. Gault became an outlaw biker with the Satan’s Choice MC and later prospected into the HAMC by 2000. He attained his patches in 2002 and was always a rat.
Gault told his cop handlers he had been approached by Mark Stephenson, president of the Oshawa HA and Remond Akleh, a former Oshawa HA who transferred to the Nomads with a plot to kill Frank Lenti. Gault spent 14 days on the witness stand. Both men were acquitted and Steven Gault disappeared into witness protection.
Mark Stephenson was freed after spending 2 1/2 years in pretrial custody.
Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper won three Grammy awards. Cops said Killer Mike was detained after an altercation inside the arena around 4 p.m. He was booked on a misdemeanor and released.
Bai Suocheng, Wei Chaoren and Liu Zhengxiang led three of four families which ruled Laukkaing on Myanmar's north-eastern border with China with an iron fist. The four families took over control of Laukkaing in 2009. Liu Guoxi, who led the fourth family, died in 2020.
They were taken to China on a chartered flight with 7 other gangsters. It is another sign of the pending downfall of Myanmar's military regime.
An alliance of three regional ethnic minority groups has taken over key towns close to the Chinese border since fighting broke out in late October. The rebels said their goal is to end the “oppressive military dictatorship” in Myanmar. In Laukkaing, they have freed workers from scam call centers and seized members of ruling families who are sometimes handed over to Chinese authorities. The mafia families have enjoyed near complete autonomy in the region in return for their support of Myanmar’s military junta. But now they find themselves on the wrong side. Rebels raided the notorious Crouching Tiger Villa.
3 years after a military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratic government, it’s ethnic rebels who are the biggest threat to the ruling junta. They’ve notched battlefield victories that experts say have pushed the junta into its limit. The country’s oldest and most powerful ethnic armed group is Karen National Union, or KNU. They have growing numbers of troops, guns and grenades. They control territory, collect taxes, and run schools and hospitals. “We are doing this revolution to get peace,” said P’doh Saw Thaw Thi Bwe. “But not just for our territory. For everyone.”
Photos by Chinese cops showed them with a couple in front of a border gate. They are Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen, son and granddaughter of one of the warlords in the area, who has run the town of Laukkaing for 14 years. Myanmar military published a photo of an autopsy being conducted in the back of a van on the body of a man. It was the warlord himself - Ming Xuechang who 'killed himself' after being arrested.
Ming Xuechang was a key henchman of Bai Suocheng, who heads one of the '4 families'. The other three families are headed by Wei Chaoren, Liu Guoxi and Liu Zhengxiang. All are local Kokang people. Developed to take advantage of Chinese demand for gambling, which is illegal in China, casinos evolved into lucrative fronts for money laundering, trafficking and in particular as a home for dozens of scam centres that fleeced Chinese and others daily. Ming Xuechang ran one of the most notorious of these scam centers, called Crouching Tiger Villa. Reports are vague but there was a 'bloodbath' there. Ming Xuechang also ran local police.
Under their rule, the remote impoverished backwater of Laukkaing was transformed into a gaudy tourist casino hub of high-rise towers, bars, and red-light districts.
On May 11, 2016, a week after Koç's murder, farmer Boota Poonia found the body of Orosman Garcia Aravela in his blueberry field.
Turkish drug trafficker Cetin Koç was sitting in his car in Dubai in 2016 when two hit men fired automatic weapons. Cetin Koç was hit seven times in the head and twice in the chest.
2 Brothers Keepers were hired by Iranian assassin Naji Sharifi Zindashti.
Harpreet Singh Majhu’s remains were found in a burnt-out car in Agassiz on June 10, 2016. Naji Sharifi Zindashti is in Iran and organizes assassinations of dissidents on behalf of the Iranian government.
A twin-engine Gulfstream 200 or G-2 aircraft with registration V3-GRS, was detected by Venezuelan radar entering the country’s airspace without authorization, and it was ultimately shot down in Zulia, Venezuela, by the country’s military. This is the same aircraft that was intercepted in Belize with 70 bales of cocaine onboard in 2020. The plane had been confiscated and sold by the Government of Belize to an unknown buyer in Cozumel, Mexico. It likely won't be sold to drug traffickers this time.
Marco Raduano, 41, boss of the Gargano Mafia in the southern Italian region of Puglia, was caught outside a luxury restaurant in Bastia, Corsica. He was reeled in by the same anti-mafia unit that captured Matteo Messina Denaro.
Budget cuts meant 50 guards were watching 180 prisoners, many of whom are some of Italy’s most notorious mafiosi.
Marco Raduano escaped from the Badu’e Carros top security prison in Sardinia. He went unnoticed for two hours because no one was watching security footage. Cameras captured the boss of the Sacra Corona Unita Mafia clan scaling down a stone wall using a rope of bedsheets before running off.
Raduano was arrested in 2018 and jailed for 18 years for cocaine trafficking. He is facing murder charges. The crime lord presides over a notoriously violent criminal clan that’s known for shattering its victims’ skulls with shotgun blasts to deprive families of open-casket funerals. The Sacra Corona Unita consists of about 50 clans with 2,000 members and specializes in extortion, smuggling cigarettes, drugs, and people.
The Sacra Corona Unita collects payoffs from other criminal groups for landing rights on the coast of Italy.
Abbotsford gangster Amritpal Saran missed a court sentencing for possession of a restricted firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle. He had a good excuse.
He was laying dead after being shot and killed in the parking lot of the Seven Oaks Shopping Centre. Amrit Saran aka Umba was the last of a dying or caged breed of United Nations gangsters.
At age 25 he outlived a great many of his peers. The Brothers Keepers are gleefully taking the credit for Umba's departure.
Cops raided the Savages MC clubhouse in a drug raid. The Savages MC set up shop at the former Devil's Army clubhouse in 2017. They are a puppet club of the HAMC. Founding member Lyle Scott Briscoe was sent away for 3 years for a gun in 2020. He said it was for protection after trying to disassociate from the club.
